You may be right—it wasn't on the first night, I remember that. Only the eventual unsuccessful couple did that.

Season two was a trainwreck. The odd-numbered seasons (so far) have been more good than bad. There's a legitimately decent-looking marriage or two out of the first season, and this season looks pretty promising except for David and Ashley.

No, as someone else mentioned above (they heard the same Radiolab episode I did), Hank's mission recapulates that of Charles K. Bliss, who after being interned in concentration camps and then ghettoization in China and Australia during WWII, invented the written language Blissymbols. Even before that, he'd grown up…

Yep. Hawley must listen to it too, or someone in the writers room anyway.

No, it was probably Gail. She's a chef, she's probably butchered a little. But it's very different.

Props to Darren Goldstein for making the character work.

It probably wasn't as blunt and harsh as that. We're seeing it through Cole's memory, after all, and he's exquisitely tuned to his mother's heightened emotions.

And as a member of Superego. And he's guested on like half the podcasts in the Earwolf network. And you can see his panel-show-with-puppets No You Shut Up on Youtube, and his old interview-show-with-cocktails Speakeasy on Youtube too. Seriously, where isn't Paul F.? Almost nowhere, happily, is where he isn't.

Nice catch.

Oh, there are a lot of words I haven't known how to pronounce. (When I was a kid, I thought a word pronounced "miss-ld" and spelled "misled" was a synonym for the word pronounced "mis-led"!) It's just that Humpty Dumpty explains the derivation of "slithy" from two long-I words right there in the text.

I can't even figure out what "as if in uffish thought he stood" could possibly mean, in context.

"Jabberwocky" was a nice touch, but I wish he'd got it a little more right.

Background performers had umbrellas as well.

Yes.

His hotheadedness kept him alive in the Danish world, when Ragnar thought it was an adorable trait in a boy, so let's not hang this one. It's not translating so well to the Saxon world (though it did win that crucial battle: only because Odda the elder worked with him, though).

Alfred's piety is what it is. He shows more reason and flexibility about it than his wife, at least.

Actually, according to a link provided by cowsharky last week, the Saxon era was a good time to be a woman in England: http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/c…

I lived in New Mexico for a minute, years ago, and was flabbergasted at how many people didn't realize it was part of America. It's a real thing.

Titles can't be copyrighted. Trademarked, but that's something different.

You're welcome.